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Commencement BARD COLLEGE ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVENTH COMMENCEMENT The Bard College Awards Ceremony Friday the twenty-sixth of May two thousand seventeen 6:30 p.m. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York PROGRAM Welcome Brandon Weber ’97 President, Board of Governors, Bard College Alumni/ae Association Remarks James C. Chambers ’81 Chair, Board of Trustees, Bard College The Bard Medal James Haller Ottaway Jr. Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Johnathan Becker Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor The John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science Mariana Raykova ’06 Stanley A. Reichel ’65 S. Rebecca Thomas Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor The Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters Nick Jones ’01 Elizabeth Ely ’65 Richard I. Suchenski Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor The John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service Betsaida Alcantara ’05 Charles S. Johnson III ’70 Omar G. Encarnación Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor The Mary McCarthy Award Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie James H. Ottaway Jr. Dinaw Mengestu Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor The Bardian Award Mario J. A. Bick Brandon Weber ’97 Yuka Suzuki Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor Diana De G. Brown Brandon Weber ’97 Laura Kunreuther Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor Marsha Rial Davis Brandon Weber ’97 Mary Backlund Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor The Bardian Award (continued) Larry Fink Brandon Weber ’97 Stephen Shore Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor Norman Manea Brandon Weber ’97 Ian Buruma Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor Recognition of Reunion Classes 1947, 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, and 2012 Remarks Leon Botstein President, Bard College Closing Brandon Weber ’97 Dinner will be served in Felicitas S. Thorne Dance Studio and Stewart and Lynda Resnick Theater Studio. Ushers will direct you. Everyone is cordially invited to hear Bard College student soloists and composers in concert with The Orchestra Now (TO¯ N), Leon Botstein conducting, in Sosnoff Theater at 9:30 p.m. and to enjoy Annandale Roadhouse at Kline Commons immediately following the concert. THE BARD MEDAL James Haller Ottaway Jr. James Ottaway Jr. is a child—indeed a grandchild—of the newspaper industry, the son and grandson of newspaper publishers. Early on, he signaled his deep interest in reporting and editing. Attending Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale, he fell in love with the classics and served as editor of the Yale Daily News. After graduation, he was publisher of the New Bedford Standard-Times in Massachusetts before becoming chairman and CEO of the family newspaper business. When Dow Jones bought Ottaway Newspapers, Jim served as senior vice president for international publication of the Wall Street Journal, overseeing its Asian and European business. He publicly resisted the company’s 2007 sale to Fox News’s Rupert Murdoch. Indeed, Jim always set his sights on a wider vision behind the business of journalism. In New Bedford, he used his position to foster racial understanding. Later, he became chairman of the World Press Freedom Committee, created to oppose the Orwellian New World Information Order. Jim was active in fighting the “insult laws” that still make it a crime in many countries to criticize strong- arm leaders. “I realized what a rare and precious thing we have with our free press in America,” he has said. When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, Jim was on a plane to Berlin the same day. Drawing on his contacts in Eastern Europe, he helped organize the international conference “The Recovery of Memory: Eastern Europe and the Question of Nationalism,” which led to the creation of Bard’s Program in International Education (PIE). Jim and his wife, Mary, offered years of irreplaceable personal and financial support to PIE students; today Jim serves as a one-man alumni/ae office for graduates in the Czech Republic. Since 1996, Jim has served as a Bard trustee and since 2011 as life trustee. For two decades, he chaired the board of advisors of the Institute for International Liberal Education—and now chairs the board of the Center for Civic Engagement, lending his voice and guidance to the establishment of Bard’s international network of dual-degree partnerships. Jim’s appreciation for film and music 2 moved him to support the Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center at Bard, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, and Bard Music Festival, and chair the board of trustees at Storm King Art Center. His limitless curiosity and love of language drew him to the board of the online translation magazine Words Without Borders, where he is chairman emeritus. The James H. Ottaway Jr. Award for the Promotion of International Literature recognizes individuals who have taken extraordinary steps to advance literature translated into English. Jim himself is translating the Odyssey and has developed a virtual second career editing books by friends all over the world. In honoring James H. Ottaway Jr. with Bard College’s highest award, the Bard Medal, we celebrate his rare combination of old-fashioned loyalty and respect for the facts with a breadth of vision and active support that embraces education, global justice, translation, the arts and—not least—journalism and the qualities of clear, effective language. Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Jonathan Becker Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor The Bard Medal honors individuals whose efforts on behalf of Bard and whose achievements have significantly advanced the welfare of the College. The Bard Medal was the inspiration of Charles Flint Kellogg, who believed that Bard should establish an award recognizing outstanding service to the College. 3 THE JOHN AND SAMUEL BARD AWARD IN MEDICINE AND SCIENCE Mariana Raykova ’06 Mariana Raykova arrived at Bard College in fall 2002 from Aprilov National High School in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, to which she had “brought fame,” in the words of her guidance counselor, by ranking first in a number of national mathematics competitions, besting rivals from Gabrovo’s Mathematical High School, and traveling as far as Australia for math competitions. At Bard, Mariana completed a double major in mathematics and computer science. Her Senior Projects concerned sequential dynamical systems that use words as updating schedules (mathematics, advised by Mark D. Halsey) and a statistical anomaly in the SHA-1 iterated hash function (computer science, advised by Robert W. McGrail). She also participated in summer research programs at the University of California, Los Angeles; Los Alamos; and the University of Minnesota. She maintained a 4.0 average throughout her undergraduate career. Mariana pursued her graduate education in computer science at Columbia University, where she earned M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees, with a dissertation on the topic of secure computation in heterogeneous environments. After a year of postdoctoral work in the Cryptography Research Group at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, she worked in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International in Silicon Valley, then joined the computer science faculty at Yale University with a concurrent appointment as a visiting researcher at Columbia University. Her research focuses on cryptography and information security; in particular, on situations in which mutually distrustful parties collaborate, using but not freely accessing each other’s private data. For instance, a client with limited access to computational resources may wish to hire someone with much greater access to carry out a particular assignment; the client may wish to keep information private while still verifying the accuracy of the result, while the worker needs to 4 prove that work has been carried out correctly while also protecting her own sensitive information. In a similar vein, Mariana’s work on cryptographic code obfuscation allows parties to provide functional access to proprietary software while concealing the details of the algorithms used. Her coauthored paper “Pinocchio: Nearly Practical Verifiable Computation” received the Best Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Symposium on Security and Privacy in 2013 and was reprinted in Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, the flagship journal of the main professional organization for computer science. The paper describes an implemented system for efficiently verifying the result of a computation that a client has outsourced to an untrusted computational worker; the system can be extended to keep the worker’s information private from the client. The efficiency improvement over previous solutions is astonishing: what would have taken hundreds of years (or more) with earlier systems can be accomplished in as little as one-hundredth of a second using Pinocchio. To have done so much in-depth, exciting work within a decade of graduation is impressive and foreshadows a distinguished career of fundamental contributions to the vital field of information security. We are proud to claim Mariana Raykova as a Bard alumna. Stanley A. Reichel ’65 S. Rebecca Thomas Trustee Sponsor Faculty Sponsor The John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science is named after two 18th-century physicians, father and son, whose descendant, John Bard, was the founder of Bard College. The award honors scientists whose achievements demonstrate the breadth of concern and depth of commitment that characterized these pioneer physicians. 5 THE CHARLES FLINT KELLOGG AWARD IN ARTS AND LETTERS Nick Jones ’01 Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Nick Jones came to the East Coast to study at Bard and has continued to explore different aspects of life in New York State. For the past several years, he has been a screenwriter for the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, an acclaimed comedy/drama about a group of inmates at a fictional women’s minimum security prison in Rockland County. The series has won four Emmys (out of seventeen nominations) and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as a Peabody Award and an American Film Institute Award, among many others.
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